MEANING OF GENTLEMAN
The word “Gentleman” originally meant someone recognizable; one who had a coat of arms and property. When you called him a gentleman, you were not paying him a compliment, but simply stating a fact. There was no contradiction, for instance, in saying that… (a man was both) …a liar and a gentleman. From Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
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